WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding his company’s vile treatment of whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Ms. Wynn-Williams testified to Senator Hawley’s subcommittee last year that Meta worked with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence CCP critics on Meta’s platforms. In retaliation, Meta has moved to gag Ms. Wynn-Williams through retaliatory arbitration.
Senator Hawley wrote, “I have recently been made aware of deeply troubling allegations regarding Meta’s treatment of the whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, Meta’s former global head of public policy. Meta’s efforts to destroy Ms. Wynn-Williams with lawfare are a matter of grave public concern. As you know, approximately one year ago, at a hearing I chaired titled ‘A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress,’ Ms. Wynn-Williams raised serious questions about Meta’s dealings with the Chinese government, the harms Meta’s platforms pose to users, and Meta’s representations to Congress.”
Hawley continued, “She testified that Meta worked hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party to construct and test custom-built censorship tools to silence and censor CCP critics. She testified that Meta helped China’s development of its own AI models—models the Chinese military uses and that steal IP from Americans—in an effort to promote Meta’s models. She testified that Meta’s executives knew about the...
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